Cattle barge EL PASO (probably), sunk at New York, NY, after collision with steamship NORTH STAR, December 1915
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York
1915-12
paper
3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "5580"; probably cattle barge EL PASO of New York Stock Yards Company, sunk at New York, NY, after collision with steamship NORTH STAR, December 1912; from original negative 1964.660.1597; see related photographs 2008.28.7.1073, 1093-1096; see accession file for account of accident in "The New York Times", December 9, 1915.
2008.28.7.1094